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Lessons Learned

  • Struck by paradigm shift (use of technology) -- let's acknowledge how far we've come and how encouraging that is.
  • Transparency and driving green innovation - idea of going up one level. Besides using green to be cost competitive, what other broader categories can we bring in?
  • Social networking is not the enemy. The diversity in the room is very encouraging.
  • Community based solutions and organic solutions are the most sustainable solutions much of the time. People have ownership over
  • Employee managed metrics for sustainability can be most useful - empowerment.
  • We think of innovation as something technology focus, but innovation is much more. It's about how we relate to each other, using communities -- create new types of value to compliment existing metrics
  • Excitement of direction we're headed -- transparency is the competitive edge. This is an example of a new way of looking at things.
  • Empowerment of individuals. Giving people the info they need to make decisions is important.
  • Companies often don't share green stories for fear of attack. But there are many good stories already out there.
  • We need BOTH emotional intelligence and business intelligence to get where we want to go with green business
  • Sustainability includes social and environmental
  • Sustainability is about people and not about things
  • Innovation can come at any age
Ideas for Future and GIBU
  • Nationwide web-conference to exchange ideas
  • Summary report to circulate to colleagues -- this will happen



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